Fire Dept. ready to scare

Starting tonight, the Peachtree City Fire Department will present its 2006 version of its haunted house for the Halloween season.

Peachtree City residents are being encouraged to help spruce up the cart path system in a special event Saturday, Nov. 4

Local grandparents who are raising their own grandchildren are being invited to participate in two public meetings in Peachtree City Thursday, Oct. 26.

Features council minutes back to 1959

Peachtree City’s web site has a new look and feel after an intensive redesign process aimed at making the site more user-friendly and interactive, officials said.

After years of waiting, work has finally begun on the widening of Lower Fayetteville Road.

The work on widening of Lower Fayetteville Road has started October 12 at Greison Trail and is working toward the east. County officials said the first stage is staking and installing minor drainage structures and cross drain pipes. The project adds two feet of asphalt on each side of the road, softens some of the curves, improves the shoulders and replaces the bridge over Sullivan Creek. Officials also said that three traffic lights will also be added, although they are not part of this GRTA funded project. They are at Mary Freeman Road, Lora Smith and Sullivan Road. The main portion of the project is being funded by the transportation agency after Coweta County agreed to let Xpress buses run in the county. The contract for this project is for $5,938,311.32 and the projected completion date is February 2008.

Coweta County officials are hopeful the county’s overhauling of zoning categories and land use plans will be done by the end of the year.

Click here to see the new middle school zoning map.

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Click here to download a pdf of the middle school zoning map.

Click here to download a pdf of the high school zoning map.

There’s nothing that draws a crowd like redrawing school boundary lines and Monday’s meeting of the Fayette County Board of Education was no exception.

Jacque Reid just wants to make sure her children are safe, and she’s not sure that can happen at Flat Rock Middle School.

A plan to discuss an increase in salaries paid to the Peachtree City mayor and City Council has been postponed.

The issue was originally scheduled to be discussed at Thursday night’s meeting but it was removed from the agenda Tuesday afternoon.

A Fayette teen accused of bringing four firearms and more than 150 rounds of ammunition to Whitewater High School in August is out of jail but on house arrest, monitored by a GPS computer-locating system.

Fayetteville City Council Oct. 19 will hear the first reading of a rezoning request for the Stella Place development on 38.15 acres located at 335 Grady Ave.

It has been a week since The Citizen ran a story about north Fayette resident Larry Wicker and his need for assistance with repairs to his home. That assistance is coming in and in a way Wicker had not first envisioned. And so is online criticism from some people incensed about some of his writing posted on the Internet.

A personnel appeals hearing for former chief detective Bruce Jordan of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office has not yet been scheduled, according to Fayette County Sheriff Randall Johnson.

Two Fayetteville teens have been arrested for the Friday armed robbery of a Peachtree City man at Chateau Marnelle mobile home park, and the victim was later arrested for criminal trespassing in what may have been an attempt to get revenge for the crime.

Location tied up in lawsuit over access agreement

There’s a holdup in Chick-fil-A’s plan to locate its corporate jets to a hangar adjacent to Falcon Field in Peachtree City.

To be or not to be, drive-in style. A discussion item Oct. 10 by Fayetteville Planning and Zoning board members centered on the appropriateness of having a Sonic drive-in restaurant along Ga. Highway 85 at Fayette Village South shopping center at Grady Avenue.

The following arrests were reported by area police agencies for the past week. All persons are considered innocent until proven guilty.

Congressman Lynn Westmoreland will host a Town Hall meeting Thursday from 4:45 to 6 p.m. at City Hall in Peachtree City.

Large lots, viable downtown pique residents’ interests

Nearly 100 Tyrone residents turned out Thursday night to offer their vision for how the bustling town should grow.

The grand opening of A Fine Art Photo Gallery in Tyrone located at at 105 Glendalough Court recently had great attendance from the community.

The summer of annexation is not over yet. Annexations in unincorporated south Fulton continued Oct. 9 with Fairburn City Council voting to annex 855 acres on the city’s south side.

Fulton County School System has announced three rounds of community meetings in October, November, and December to address the redistricting process for a new elementary school and two middle schools under construction in South Fulton County.

The skies overhead were perfect Oct. 7 as thousands made their way to Fairburn’s Festival of Arts, Antiques & Music.

Fairburn Business Association will feature Christian City President and CEO Robert Crutchfield at the Oct. 16 meeting. Crutchfield will speak about the concept of Christian City, the organizations progress throughout the years and its future plans. The meeting will be held at the Fairburn Annex building on Washington Street and will begin promptly at 6:30 PM.

Rep. Lynn Westmoreland continued his attacks on the media during a feisty debate Wednesday night with Democratic challenger Mike McGraw in Newnan.

Deal requires land from Pathway, Planterra golf club

The deadline has come and passed for a federal grant to the Peachtree City Airport Authority that will pave the way for TDK Boulevard to be extended from Peachtree City into Coweta County.

Landscaping along highway coming soon

The latest big retailer to be coming to Peachtree City will be Petsmart.

Coweta’s four County Commission candidates gathered at the Central Education Center in Newnan Wednesday night to introduce themselves to the voters.

The American Red Cross - Coweta County Chapter has kicked off its 3rd annual HEROES fundraising campaign this month. The HEROES campaign, scheduled to run through Oct. 31 raises funds to support ongoing disaster relief and health and safety programs for Coweta County residents. The target goal this year is to raise $25,000 for needed services in the county.

Kedron Elementary School in Peachtree City has been named a national “Blue Ribbon” school by the U.S. Department in Education.